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To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
Cc: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>,
	"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?)
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: 25 Jul 2002 18:03:53 +0200
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Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> writes:
> well, I have a very low knowledge about zsh, but it has many features
> (maybe too much, IMHO) such as associative arrays and builtin dynamic
> loading...

zsh is mostly a ksh clone.  It can also emulate sh, csh and bash (and
even understands csh scripting syntax), but it's possibly not a good
enough sh clone to replace ash.  At leat 3.x wasn't - I haven't
checked the docs lately, so it's possible that 4.x is better.

DES
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